Anaïs Nin IPA:
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“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
Anais Nin
“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
“When one is pretending the entire body revolts”
“To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and the psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.”
“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.”
“The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements”
“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
“Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.”
“I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself”
“Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.”